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One other cause of jealousy between them I must tell you.

Paint!!

Gloomy and unkempt as Red McIver was, he was much the better painter.

I suppose Handley knew it.

If Red had a show at Gloucester, Handley would hurry to hang his pictures in Rockport.

You may say this has little pertinence, but, gentlemen, remember that all this prepared my mind, alerted my intelligence.

By such touches the pattern takes shape.

You would call these the motives of crime.

I would call them the patterns of life, perhaps even the designs of destiny.

Yet with all this knowledge I had nothing of substance to unravel our case, as you would call it, till yesterday.